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<h1><a href="index.html">Pixelpost 1.6</a></h1>
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Ramin Mehran, Connie Mueller-Goedecke, Robert Prouse, Will Duncan, Joseph Spurling, Piotr &quot;GeoS&quot; Galas, Dennis Mooibroek<br /><br />
Version 1.1 to Version 1.3: Linus &lt;<a href="http://www.shapestyle.se">http://www.shapestyle.se</a>&gt;<br />
<p>Contact: thecrew (at) pixelpost (dot) org</p>
<p>Copyright &copy; 2007 Pixelpost.org &lt;<a href="http://www.pixelpost.org">http://www.pixelpost.org</a>&gt;</p>
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  Pixelpost wiki: <a href="http://wiki.pixelpost.org/">http://wiki.pixelpost.org/</a><br />
  Pixelpost forum: <a href="http://forum.pixelpost.org">http://forum.pixelpost.org</a></p>
<p>License: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a></p>
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<h2>Program Requirements </h2>
<p>These are the requirements for Pixelpost:</p>
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  <li>Sufficient webspace: don't forget your images will take up space too! </li>
  <li>Apache webserver or Windows IIS</li>
  <li>PHP, version 4.3.0 or higher with GD-lib (compiled with JPG-support)</li>
  <li>MySQL version 3.24.58 or higher</li>
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<p>To install Pixelpost, it is necessary to check whether your webspace supports these requirements and to have the following MySQL-database-informations at hand  before you start to install:</p>
<ul><li>name of the database-host, often &quot;localhost&quot;</li>
<li>database user name</li>
<li>database user password</li>
<li>database name</li></ul>

<p>If you don't have these informations, ask your hoster to provide you with these informations</p>
<p>If you do not know how to set the file-permissions for the folder, check the help-file of the ftp-program which you use to upload files or read here in this very good tutorial: <a href="http://www.nucleuscms.org/documentation/tips.html#filepermissions">http://www.nucleuscms.org/documentation/tips.html#filepermissions</a></p>

<h2>Install</h2>

<p>Directory structure of Pixelpost:</p>
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  /<br />
  /addons/<br />
  /admin/<br />
  /doc/<br />
  /includes/<br />
  /language/<br />
  /templates/<br />
  /images/<br />
  /thumbnails/</p>
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  <li>Edit the pixelpost.php file (located in /includes/), enter the database information there: these are the fields, where you must enter the necessary data:
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  	$pixelpost_db_host      = &quot;localhost&quot;; [database host, often &quot;localhost&quot;]<br />
    $pixelpost_db_user      = &quot;replace_me&quot;; [database user]<br />
    $pixelpost_db_pass      = &quot;replace_me&quot;; [database user password]<br />
    $pixelpost_db_pixelpost = &quot;replace_me&quot;; [database]
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 If you choose another name for your Pixelpost tables, change it here, replace &quot;pixelpost_&quot; by the table-name-prefix of your choice:<br /><br />
$pixelpost_db_prefix = &quot;pixelpost_&quot;; [table prefix, leave as is unless you want to install multiple blogs on the same database]</li><br />
 <li>Upload the files into some directory of your liking, but keep the directory structure as it is it is not necessary to upload the directory &quot;doc&quot; to your webspace.</li><br /> 
  <li>Create a folder 'images'.</li>
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  <li>Create a folder 'thumbnails'.</li>
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  <li>Set the permissions to the folder 'images' and to the folder 'thumbnails' (chmod 777)</li><br />
  <li>Connect to your site and the admin section, for example www.yoursite.com/where_you_installed_pixelpost/admin/install.php and follow the online instructions.<br />
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  <h2>Upgrade</h2>
  <p>If you are running Pixelpost earlier than version 1.6, you will need to upgrade to the new version. Check out how to upgrade <a href="upgrade.html">here</a>. </p>
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